Ganley to sue RTE over Prime Time doc.

Run_to_da_hills · 04-12-2008 05:43PM #1

Anti Lisbon Treaty campaigner Declan Ganley has said he will sue RTÉ over last Thursday's Prime Time programme for slandere about his business activities.

If he wins this case it will give him enough funding to pay off debts on the previous campaign and also cover the cost of the next referendum.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1204/ganleyd.html

Gandalf23 · 04-12-2008 05:45PM

The micro-second I saw this thread title I knew it would be by RTDH ...

oztots · 04-12-2008 05:47PM

Couldnt blame him for it, i mean RTE is just sucking up to the government.

I still think the mans a robot sent from the future though.

Mark200 · 04-12-2008 05:48PM

I caught a good bit of that documentary. If I remember correctly Ganley even gave interviews himself for it didn't he?

On a side note, I love how RTE link to the documentary about him even in an article saying that he's going to sue them over it.

dresden8 · 04-12-2008 05:48PM

If he loses will he get a deal on the costs like Beverly Flynn did?

Run_to_da_hills · 04-12-2008 05:51PM

oztots wrote: »

Couldnt blame him for it, i mean RTE is just sucking up to the government.

I still think the mans a robot sent from the future though.

RTE is the Government.

omad65 · 04-12-2008 05:55PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

RTE is the Government.

thats what I was thinking the whole time I was watching this documentary, seemed like a complete hatchet job to me.

copacetic · 04-12-2008 05:56PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Anti Lisbon Treaty campaigner Declan Ganley has said he will sue RTÉ over last Thursday's Prime Time programme for slandere about his business activities.

If he wins this case it will give him enough funding to pay off debts on the previous campaign and also cover the cost of the next referendum.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1204/ganleyd.html

he is threatening to sue any politician or news organisation that says anything about him at all. Determined to use his financial resources to scare anyone who disagrees from speaking out..

niceirishfella · 04-12-2008 06:01PM

omad65 wrote: »

thats what I was thinking the whole time I was watching this documentary, seemed like a complete hatchet job to me.

+1
The olde boyz club in FF fear this energetic, intelligent,enagmatic,business savvy successfull man for some reason. If they had a brain in their head, they'd try and bring him into the fold. Keep you friends close and your enemies even closer as they say.

Aidric · 04-12-2008 06:01PM

Best of luck to him with that. I didn't see anything in that Prime Time piece that libeled him. RTE would have to have cleared this pre airing with their legal representatives in the event of such an eventuality coming to bear.

Mark200 · 04-12-2008 06:02PM

copacetic wrote: »

he is threatening to sue any politician or news organisation that says anything about him at all. Determined to use his financial resources to scare anyone who disagrees from speaking out..

Soon we'll have "Do NOT reference or discuss any Declan Ganley event or campaign" stickied on the top of every forum

thelordofcheese · 04-12-2008 06:04PM

Mark200 wrote: »

Soon we'll have "Do NOT reference or discuss any Declan Ganley event or campaign" stickied on the top of every forum

I would murder for that rule to be brought in.

I can do without several hundred threads on the lisbon II 'debate'. Last time was horrible, as was the post result fallout.

fricatus · 04-12-2008 06:08PM

I can't believe that people are mesmerised by this guy, like a rabbit looking at a bloody snake. How naive are we?

He parachuted in from seemingly nowhere, with a load of money, and ordinary people don't stop to think that maybe he has an agenda that he's not telling us about. Then he refuses to disclose his funding, threatening to sue left, right and centre, using his financial might to bully people into shutting up about him.

And people still trust and support him?

This is the only sane comment I've seen so far on this discussion:

oztots wrote: »

I still think the mans a robot sent from the future though.

niceirishfella · 04-12-2008 06:15PM

fricatus wrote: »

I can't believe that people are mesmerised by this guy, like a rabbit looking at a bloody snake. How naive are we?

He parachuted in from seemingly nowhere, with a load of money, and ordinary people don't stop to think that maybe he has an agenda that he's not telling us about. Then he refuses to disclose his funding, threatening to sue left, right and centre, using his financial might to bully people into shutting up about him.

And people still trust and support him?

This is the only sane comment I've seen so far on this discussion:

I'm not mesmerised. I'm impressed. He beat the goverment and their PR machine, he's a self made multi-millionaire entrepeneur, a family man and comes from a working class west of Ireland family.
Re; his agenda........well, all policitians have agendas, he made his european one clear and i guess when and if he goes for office here as a TD, he'll set out his stall then too.
People are quick to judge him by the shoiite they see on TV and in the papers all trying to discredit him.
Be careful of the media and what is feed to you.

This guy could be good for our country?

Rob_l · 04-12-2008 06:16PM

fricatus wrote: »

I can't believe that people are mesmerised by this guy, like a rabbit looking at a bloody snake. How naive are we?

He parachuted in from seemingly nowhere, with a load of money, and ordinary people don't stop to think that maybe he has an agenda that he's not telling us about. Then he refuses to disclose his funding, threatening to sue left, right and centre, using his financial might to bully people into shutting up about him.

And people still trust and support him?

This is the only sane comment I've seen so far on this discussion:

Dont all politicians have an agenda?

MagicMarker · 04-12-2008 06:17PM

Who's this Deco fella?

niceirishfella · 04-12-2008 06:17PM

Rob_l wrote: »

Dont all politicians have an agenda?

+1 x 1000 .......could'nt agreed more.

mickdw · 04-12-2008 06:17PM

That programme was a disgrace, I couldnt really believe it while watching it. They went with all these sinister business arguments without proving any of them and then cutting to ganley having to 'explain himself' as if they actually had something on him. He will get an apology I bet!

thelordofcheese · 04-12-2008 06:27PM

niceirishfella wrote: »

I'm not mesmerised. I'm impressed. He beat the goverment and their PR machine

The PR machine that never actually did anything on the run up to the lisbon vote? Real impressive.

If they'd actually bothered to use their 'PR machine' they'd have drummed this charlatan and his campaign of fear, uncertainty and doubt into the ground.

Lord only knows why they didn't.

seamus · 04-12-2008 06:28PM

Hopefully this bankrupts him.

He's well known around his local area for being a complete asshat. He's a bit like Twink - nobody likes him, he has no social skills whatsoever and will kick up a stink and annoy everyone till he gets his way.

niceirishfella · 04-12-2008 06:35PM

thelordofcheese wrote: »

The PR machine that never actually did anything on the run up to the lisbon vote? Real impressive.

If they'd actually bothered to use their 'PR machine' they'd have drummed this charlatan and his campaign of fear, uncertainty and doubt into the ground.

Lord only knows why they didn't.

and you know all this from the Isle of Wright?
The gov did have a PR machine and tried to use it, but lost. He beat them, HAMMERED them in fact.

Ciaran500 · 04-12-2008 06:38PM

niceirishfella wrote: »

The gov did have a PR machine and tried to use it, but lost. He beat them, HAMMERED them in fact.

They barely used it, there was no where near as much publicity from the government as the no side.

niceirishfella · 04-12-2008 06:38PM

seamus wrote: »

He's well known around his local area for being a complete asshat. He's a bit like Twink - nobody likes him, he has no social skills whatsoever and will kick up a stink and annoy everyone till he gets his way.

....says the mod for the east region?
Clearly you don't live in his locally and you're going on hear'say. I know his town of residence and he's impressed the locals - FACT.

Ciaran500 · 04-12-2008 06:39PM

Putting FACT after a post makes you sound like a twat - FACT

thelordofcheese · 04-12-2008 06:45PM

niceirishfella wrote: »

and you know all this from the Isle of Wright?
The gov did have a PR machine and tried to use it, but lost. He beat them, HAMMERED them in fact.

Ohh you caught me, truth is i've never lived anywhere else in the world but here. Never. Certainly not ireland. Nope.

Still, i can tell a one sided contest when i see one, even from all the way over here. Infact wasn't one of the many arguments used by ganley and Co that the government weren't informing people and getting information out there?

(also: it's spelt 'Wight', by the way)

niceirishfella · 04-12-2008 06:51PM

thelordofcheese wrote: »

Ohh you caught me, truth is i've never lived anywhere else in the world but here. Never. Certainly not ireland. Nope.

Still, i can tell a one sided contest when i see one, even from all the way over here. Infact wasn't one of the many arguments used by ganley and Co that the government weren't informing people and getting information out there?

(also: it's spelt 'Wight', by the way)

it was a typo on the speeling, see i do it all the time:)

Re; your position and comment - you were not here to witness it on the ground. You comments are worthless on this matter.
You get your info and angles from the media, who have an agenda. Sorry:o

Guy:Incognito · 04-12-2008 06:54PM

niceirishfella wrote: »

it was a typo on the speeling, see i do it all the time:)

Re; your position and comment - you were not here to witness it on the ground. You comments are worthless on this matter.
You get your info and angles from the media, who have an agenda. Sorry:o

I was here and on the ground. I agree with him (lord of cheese)

Ganly's a tool.

niceirishfella · 04-12-2008 07:01PM

Stekelly wrote: »

I was here and on the ground. I agree with him (lord of cheese)

Ganly's a tool.

shure all politicians are tools;)

thelordofcheese · 04-12-2008 07:01PM

niceirishfella wrote: »

it was a typo on the speeling, see i do it all the time:)

Re; your position and comment - you were not here to witness it on the ground. You comments are worthless on this matter.
You get your info and angles from the media, who have an agenda. Sorry:o

wait, you know where i am at all times? That's not creepy in the slightest.

Actually, unless you get your info from being everywhere in ireland at once, then you too get it from the 'media' and the media you've chosen to consume has just as much of an agenda.

Don't think you're some kind of enlightened crusader for truth, you've just nailed your colours to the Ganleys mast and in keeping with that theme you're insinuating that you're the only one that knows "the truth".

*shakes head*
You make me sad with your rubbish.

copacetic · 04-12-2008 07:05PM

niceirishfella wrote: »

it was a typo on the speeling, see i do it all the time:)

Re; your position and comment - you were not here to witness it on the ground. You comments are worthless on this matter.
You get your info and angles from the media, who have an agenda. Sorry:o

that is absolute crap, cheese is bang on, it was Libertas who spent all the money on PR and bought the vote. It shows how crazy the conspiracy theories are when they now even back up these scum as some kind of little guy against the establishment..

niceirishfella · 04-12-2008 07:09PM

thelordofcheese wrote: »

*shakes head*
You make me sad with your rubbish.

sorry to hear that, I'm sad too now.
Can we be sad together?

Ganley to sue RTE over Prime Time doc.

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